Re: scp non-overwrite option

[Wei Wang <wwan3127@mail.usyd.edu.au>]

Hi
        
        Try rsync. 
        It has automatical differencial algorithm for avoiding transfer
        duplicated data.

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 08:57 +0530, Bhasker C V wrote:
> All,
> 
>   I was trying to scp a large directory from server to my box (server on
> FC and my desktop on etch). I use scp -r option to copy all the files.
> But when it happens that the scp fails somewhere, i cannot ask it to
> continue by omitting the ones it has already copied. For example in the 
> standard cp command, i can give a '-i' option to interactively ask if
> the command is going to overwrite a file already present. Why is this
> option not present in scp ? 
> 
> PS: I did a workaround by setting the already copied files as r--------
> which helps by not allowing scp to overwrite the file, but just curious
> if there is any other proper method to do this.